A rhythmic white Cajun-French as distinct from Creole form of music, usually sung nasally (without many notes or attention to them) in ungrammatical and mispronounced French, with cymbals (or cheap cymbals that sound like cowbells) just missing the backbeat, and melodeons so "wet" that the note(s) they are playing are a matters of estimation.

The music form uses washboards, which explains why the performers appear never to wash.

Inbreeding and sexual deviance with shrimps are key features.

The relevance to England is limited, in that the key traditional shrimping areas in England, such as Gravesend, and the key traditional inbreeding areas, like Romney Maa-aa-aa-arsh would have found the music too demanding, it being mostly nowadays enjoyed by condescending pseudo-intellectuals. The shellfish tradition from further down the north Kent coast is more concentrated on oysters and tipping the velvet.   Travellers to Sheppey, however, as distinct from travellers as such, about whom it would be non-PC to make sexual assumptions, may find that their IQ drops automatically as they cross the bridge, so enabling them to enjoy linedancing and other alien forms (probably not lifeforms, unlike the participants' underwear) such as, without limitation, Zydeco.

Musical format is a matter of conjecture in that the vocalists mostly approximate but one note.

A further approximation in rhythm structure arises from the use of things a bit like shaky eggs only bigger and less well tuned.

However, the music has a potentially rehabilitative structure in enabling those with motor disorders to experiment with jive.